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Gambia News : Gambia launches campaign for energy efficiency, conservation
The Gambian national sensitisation campaign on energy efficiency and conservation was launched in Banjul on Friday.
Speaking at the launch, the Minister of Energy, Babucarr Jallow,
said electricity was the most important energy source in the Gambia.
Electricity,
Jallow said, was the most convenient form of energy because it could be
used to power all forms of demands and was therefore the engine that
drove the economy - an engine of growth.
He said the bottom line
of government's energy policy was the provision of reliable, efficient
and cheap energy services to the entire population.
He stated
that all the Gambia's electricity is produced from oil-based products,
such as heavy fuel oil and diesel and in this era of high oil prices,
these represent the most expensive forms of electricity generation.
According
to him, the government adopted a policy to promote energy efficiency
and conservation under the ministry of energy, noting that energy
efficiency and conservation are fundamental components in the
ministry's strategy to provide every Gambian with access to energy,
including electricity.
Jallow noted that the cabinet approved a
national energy efficiency policy in March 2008 to encourage
utilization of efficient energy devices and agreed to waive taxes on
CFL bulbs.
As part of the implementation of the national energy
efficiency programme, he said, the UNDP was supporting the ministry of
energy in promoting energy efficiency and conservation.
The
programme, he said, was to sensitise the population on the ways and
means of conserving the electricity produced, so that it would save the
electricity consumed, reduce the bills at household levels, free the
voltages that would have otherwise been used inefficiently, reduce or
delay the installation of additional power plants that are very
expensive to build and maintain.
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(Posted on December 9, 2009, 6:09 PM B. jabbi)
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